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Feng Mengbo: Q4U: 2003 at ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

ShanghART is pleased to present Feng Mengbo, one of China’s leading new media artists, in his first solo exhibition in China.
Since the early 1990’s Feng Mengbo has worked at the intersection between painting and digital medium. His interactive digital works ‘My Private Album’ (1996)‘Taking Mr. Doom by Strategy’ (1997), ‘Q3’(1993) are part of the history of new media art in China and have been shown widely in China and internationally.

In 2001/02 Feng Mengbo changed the popular Internet game ‘Quake 3’ to create his own computer game ‘Q4U’. The new game is featuring a 3-D likeness of Feng Mengbo holding a video camera in one hand and a plasma riffle in the other. The story is the same as in the original Quake 3: simply kill or be killed.

Q4U was shown with great success at the 11th Documenta in Kassel and, in an other version, recently at the Guangzhou Triennial in Southern China.

In his solo exhibition at ShanghART Feng Mengbo shows nostly 2-dimensional works, including paintings and photos, of scenes from Q4U.

Feng Mengbo, born 1966, was initially trained as a printmaker at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He began making digitally-based work in the early 1990’s. Feng Mengbo has participated at the Dokumenta Kassel (both Dokumenta10 and 11) and hold solo exhibitions at Holly Solomon Gallery, NY; Hanart Gallery; Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee; DIA Center for the Art, NY; Renaissance Society,Chicago etc.

The ShanghART exhibition marks the first time that Feng Mengbo shows his 2 dimensional works related to Q4U and it is Feng Mengbo’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai (and in China).



Feng Mengbo: Q4U: 2003 (the two dimensional works) at ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

Exhibition time: January 25 - Febuary 25, 2003, daily 10 am - 7 pm

Opening: Friday 24.January 2003, 6-8pm

ShanghART gallery (at Park 97), 2a Galoan Rd. 200020 Shanghai

 

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基于著名的网络第一人称射击游戏《雷神之锤III》（Id Software, Inc.,1999)，由位于芝加哥的博物馆文艺复兴协会（The Renaissance Society)为第11届文献展(Documenta 11, Kassel,2002)制作，来自北京的艺术家冯梦波的新作《Q4U》是文献展历史上第一个限制18岁以下青少年参观的作品。在三个巨型投影屏幕上，以艺术家本人为原形的3D虚拟人物，左手持微型摄影机，右手平端机枪，在迷宫般的城堡中与和自己形象完全一样的对手近身肉搏，震耳欲聋的爆炸声和激烈的TECHNO音乐不绝于耳，眩目的火光和血雾使整个大厅亮如白昼。世界各地的游戏玩家通过INTERNET连入设于德国的服务器参战，艺术家本人也在每天晚上从北京的工作室在线观战或参加20分钟。《Q4U》不但是一个电脑多媒体互动装置，而且是一个透过INTERNET的实时表演艺术。 此次在香格纳画廊首展的绘画《Q4U_200201.TGA》和《Q4U_200301.TGA》和另外16件电脑合成数字照片是冯梦波取材于《Q4U》的屏幕截图的新作。在以自动屏幕快照取得近两万张连续图片后筛选，艺术家以最为震撼的静止画面入画，并从《Q4U_200301.TGA》起尝试用丙烯底料模拟3D的网架系统，微妙地使观众失去与画面的实际的距离感。作为有丰富的制作限量艺术品的艺术家，这些新的数字照片希望呈现的是一种华丽庄严的有如平面的纪念碑一般的质感。 同时展出的7分半钟的DVD录影片《阿Q（死亡之镜，Q4U之舞垫版）》是基于今年在广州三年展展出的同名互动装置。作为一个电影，艺术家把一连串的动作镜头剪接为芭蕾一般的流畅，以丰富的人声歌唱采样制作的背景音乐一起，时而嘈杂时而又如失聪般的安静，延续了艺术家对于什么是美的一贯思考和努力。

Please visit Feng Mengbo's Homepage: http://www.mengbo.com